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...would you boost Taiwan's economy? We need direct trade, transport and postal services with China. Without direct flights, it takes us six to seven hours to fly from Taipei to Shanghai, so we've effectively moved Taipei to where Jakarta is. Can you think of anything more stupid than that? We're very strong in R&D, design, incubation and marketing, but it's too expensive to manufacture in Taiwan anymore, so there should be a division of labor between Taiwan and the mainland...
...screen. From meeting the parents to soft crying at a funeral, movies and television have carefully prepared us for how to act in any given situation; there are no more authentic, naked, and unprepared experiences. Instead, we go through the motions we’ve seen before. As The Postal Service sing, “I kissed you in [the] style [of] Clark Gable”—every guy learned to kiss by watching movie kisses, so every kiss is an imitation.The media can’t take away the pain of a funeral or the thrill...
...Stamps have a cultural resonance. The U.S. Postal Service does not put living Americans on stamps, and so when an icon dies, their arrival on a stamp signals a kind of American enshrinement for their place in history. Last year's issue of a Ronald Reagan stamp saw some of the briskest sales in postal history, and no doubt when Bill Clinton passes on in the future there will be a debate about how to portray his likeness - just as there was over the Richard Nixon stamp...
...renewed interest in stamps gave me an idea. At a time of polarized politics in America, the U.S. Postal Service should issue a pair of stamps honoring two Commerce Secretaries who died before their time and who each embodied what?s best about red- and blue-state America. I'm thinking of Malcolm Baldridge, who served under Ronald Reagan and died in a horseback riding accident in 1987, and Ron Brown, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who served under Bill Clinton and died in a plane crash while trying to promote economic development in the Balkans during...
...stamp can?t change the world, but it can remind us in a small way about the greatness of America. And by honoring these two men - liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican - it can remind us that we have more in common than not. Citizens can petition the Postal Service for stamp suggestions. If you'd like to see Brown and Baldridge stamps, write me at Brownandbaldridge@AOL.COM